'About 300 yards south by east from the house of Bakethin, and 450 yards south-west from the house at Gowan Burn, on the opposite side of the river, on a rising ground called Lewie Knowe, are traces of a small camp or earthwork, about 20 yards in diameter with several foundations of dwellings and lines of division about it'. 'So much cut up by modern enclosures and casts, as to be traced with difficulty'. (a) (1)

Type B2. Destroyed ? (Forts on High Ground - Prehistoric). (2)

Lewie Knowe. Single banked irregular earthwork, at Lat 55 12' 50"; Long 2 33' 40" (listed under native sites). (3)

Area NY 643911. Camp (site of). (4)

Occurring within a portion of Kielder Forest (owned by the Forestry Commission) the site is not amenable to a close ground investigation. No trace of any earthwork could be seen and presumably any slight remains will have been destroyed by afforestation.
The positions indicated by authorities 1 and 3 vary a little, and that indicated by authority 1, being on higher ground appears to be the most favourable defensive site.
Situated at approximately 630 ft above OD, on the crest of a small ridge which extends from the north east facing slopes of a hill it would, in the absence of trees command an excellent view of the valley of the river North Tyne to the north, and that of the Lewie Hope to the east. To the
south west the ground rises gently.
The most convenient source of water is a small stream approximately 200m south west of the site. The Lewie Hope is equally close but on much lower ground.
No significant field names appear to have survived; and nothing is visible on available aerial photographs (RAF 1946). (5)

Despite recent clearing of part of the forest no trace of an antiquity could be located. The area of the alleged site falls within the limits of the Kielder Reservoir Scheme, at present under construction and due for completion early 1980s. (6)

The earthworks were in good order in 1963 under mature Sitka. (7)

Additional reference (8)